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libya
/ˈlɪˌbiə/
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What does libya mean?
proper noun
- A country in North Africa. Capital: Tripoli.
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proper noun
- (historical) Africa; that is, the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity.
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IPA pronunciation
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Its economy is slowly recovering from the ravaging effects of prolonged civil war, conflict with Libya, drought, and food shortages.
He was chosen quaestor to Marius in his first consulship, and set sail with him for Libya, to war upon Jugurtha.
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Yet the spontaneous nature of Europe, of Western Asia, of Libya, neither fed nor clothed the civilized inhabitants of those provinces.
MELIBOEUS But we far hence, to burning Libya some, Some to the Scythian steppes, or thy swift flood, Cretan Oaxes, now must wend our way, Or Britain, from the whole world sundered far.
Put three Frenchmen into the deserts of Libya, they will not live a month together without fighting; so that you would say this peregrination were a thing purposely designed to give foreigners the pleasure of our tragedies, and, for the most part, to such as rejoice and laugh at our miseries.